I have been slowly catching up with my stairwork since the July 13th storm. I am now back on the 180 degree maple stairway. Today…I mitered and pocket screwed the inside stringer…and lay out and mortised the outside stringer. The first picture is of the inside stringer just released from its forms with glue runs still on it. The second one is after the miters were cut.
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Here you can see the edge being power planed.
And here you can see the outside stringer being mortised for the treads and risers. Excuse the clutter...I soon will be moving to my newly painted set up room...and then the old shop is going to be gutted...rebuilt. I am making this sow ear into a silk purse. :)
Nice pictures, keep em comming.
I always look forward to the end results!
Doug
Awesome. Ditto on the keep 'em coming!
Clutter? What clutter?
Those stairs are starting to form up nicely! Keep the pics coming, I like the before, during, during, during, during, after.
And wasn't there a fly-in a week or so ago? I don't remember seeing the pics from that.
jt8
Maple, hickory... and other fantastic grained woods. Stan, where do you find a reliable source of all these woods? Do you have a local saw mill or lumberyard that carries a good stock of them? Or are you raiding an Amish warehouse somewhere?
The few times I've bought these, I had to really dig to find clean wood, and it cost an arm & leg. And I SURE ain't using as much of it as you are on those staircases!
jt8
Or are you raiding an Amish warehouse somewhere?
Ha! I like that one!
John: Actually I am buying most of my stuff from the Amish community around Arthur, Il.
Here are some pre-install pictures of this project taken onsite . Not the best pictures...but you can make out the stairwell that will contain two 180 degree maple stairways ...the upper one is a walk under that is attached to that serpentine floating balcony. It just appears that no way that balcony can be so solid...it looks like its floating when seen in person. There will be no supports under my upper stairway. It is all cantilevered microlams.
The maple 180 degree basement stairway will be open on the inside stringer...but will have a wall supporting it. The upper one will have the belly of the stairs plastered. All the level railing will be curved that connects between the two.
This is going to be my favortite stair project to date. :)
Stan
Aha! I was wondering if it didn't have something to do with the Amish. The Amish in Arthur are well known for their woodworkers (and cheese), so I assumed there must be hardwood over there somewhere.
I have an uncle who built a house a few years ago and had his kitchen cabinets made in Arthur. He made the drive from Arkansas to Arthur, IL just for kitchen cabinets. That is how good they were.
There is also an excellent furniture maker in that area...maybe Atwood (I'm not sure), isn't that near Arthur? Wish I could remember what the shop was called. They had some fantastic looking pieces, and I think they even had a catalog of stuff they could make. PLUS, they make stuff to order. A lady I know had purchased an old chair at an estate auction. She took the chair over to the furniture maker and he made THREE more identical chairs. Viola!
jt8
I have an uncle who built a house a few years ago and had his kitchen cabinets made in Arthur. He made the drive from Arkansas to Arthur, IL just for kitchen cabinets.
Okay, I just gotta ask: where in Arkansas?
Leigh
I finally got back on my maple stairway. I have 11 treads installed in these pictures. I thought I would show one as it is "hatching out".
Huh. Never thought of pocket screws! Am I correct to assume these get dismantled and transported??
Anyway, always enjoy seeing the work!
Hook
Hook: Yhe stair will stay assembled except for the railing. You can screw them into the house.
Geeze, Stan, you make it looks easy! Can't wait to see this one when its done. Find a way to turn the stingers into segments and you could mail stair kits to people.
Is this stairway going to get transported with the stringers, risers,and treads all assembled? A hoist in the shop would lift it to put it on the trailer, but I'm curious how many guys it will take to unload it. And it would be neat to watch you get it through a 36" door.
And by the by, while I'm barraging you with questions, was that hardwood source a well kept secret or a public source that anybody could buy from? I promise not to build any stairs. Actually I don't currently have any projects requiring hardwood, but it is always nice to know where to find it, even if it takes a bit of a drive.
jt8
I'm going to have to get my eyes checked. The first time I read that I thought it said, "where is Arkansas". So then I'm trying to figure out if I misspelled AR... or maybe aberwacky didn't make it through geography class... But NO, I just read it wrong.
where in Arkansas
Their new house is outside of Mountain Home. I will say in their defense though that they're not native Arkansasians.. They're transplants, so that probably means they wouldn't be able to marry their 13 year old cousin ..or anything like that ;)
jt8
Perhaps I should have mentioned that I'm a native Arkansan. That was the source of my curiosity.
Leigh
Perhaps I should have mentioned that I'm a native Arkansan. That was the source of my curiosity.
Yeah I know, that's why I made the joke about marrying 13 year old cousins ;)
jt8
I love your in progress pics, I learn something everytime you post 'em. But, you gotta quit whinning about your shop<G> I share mine with 4 ( at the minimum) mature ladies (all over 70, and they all carry really sharp knives). Suck it up and keep showing us more! Don't worry, we can fix that later!